This is the second year that North Carolina-based Automated Insights have been
evaluating draft outcomes for users of Yahoo Fantasy Football.
This year's analysis, which is carried out by AI's Wordsmith
program, incorporates more data and more complex language, making
it particularly brutal.

"We configure the lexicon for each project – in this case,
we taught Wordsmith many, many snarky phrases," AI's James
Kotecki told us an in email. "Wordsmith determines the best
phrase combinations for a specific report, from AP style to
Fantasy Football trash talk."

Here's the report Wordsmith gave Lema
D, who received a "C" grade after she drafted too many
New York Giants too high in the draft (Big Blue is 13th in Vegas'
odds of winning the Super Bowl). She also drafted a kicker, a
non-essential position, in the 9th round out of 15.

"Sometimes in life we make mistakes," the robot said.
"Lema's Team will hopefully use this giant mistake of a draft as
a learning opportunity, so in future drafts they will perform
much better."

Kurt
C.'s team, "KC Masterpiece," fared even worse, earning a "D"
because he chose too many running backs — and they weren't even
good ones.

"Congratulations, KC
Masterpiece has earned a participation award," the robot mocked,
"because that's just about all they did in this draft,
participate. This delightful roster (for the opposition) is
projected to finish 12th in Athlon Media NY League with a record
of 2-12-0 (1,187 points). They went with the SMU "Pony Express"
draft strategy, loading up on three tailbacks in the first five
rounds, selecting Le'Veon Bell (second round), Reggie Bush
(fourth round), and Trent Richardson (fifth round). In spite of
that positional emphasis, they landed one of the lowest-scoring
groups of RBs in the league. Brutal draft."

"When the draft countdown clock hit zero, the GM of e-money
put their game face on. Firing on all cylinders from the eighth
spot in the draft, they put together a team that's projected to
finish second in CONNvicts League with a record of 10-4-0 (2,036
points)."